Owen was lost without trace left.
Then said Ina: "What more could be done by Oswald ?--Will men help a Saxon ?" "This must be between ourselves, King Ina," Jago said plainly.

"It is in my mind that if Oswald and I or some known lord of the British will go to that place and sit there quietly with rewards in our hands, we may learn much; for men fear Gerent the king in his wrath, and they fled from his coming." "So be it," said Ina.

"Oswald shall go, and it seems to me that every day is precious, so that he shall go at once.

Is there thought that Owen may be taken out of the country, as Oswald was taken ?" "Every port and every fisher is watched, and has been so.

For that was the first thing we feared.